Saturday, April 29, 2006

The incarnation correctly stated and defined

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The correct way of stating the incarnation is to say that the Eternal Son took a human nature into union with His own Divine Person. This is...
Friday, April 21, 2006

Emptied himself of all but love? A strange error

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The very popular hymn by Charles Wesley, “And Can it be That I should gain,” originally entitled "Free Grace": contains several s...
Monday, April 03, 2006

Translating the AV: John Bois' Notes

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In the previous article on the life and labours of John Bois we followed him until his death in 1643. Before he died, however, he prepared h...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

The English Standard Version in historical perspective

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In order to understand the origins of the ESV we must go back to the Revised Version of 1881. The claims that were made for the RV, especia...
Friday, March 17, 2006

Rutherford and the Gospel Offer

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Excerpts from Trial and Triumph of Faith Now, the special intent of the gospel is to bring men to put a high and rich price upon Christ, and...
Friday, February 10, 2006

The communication fallacy in modern Bible translation

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Dynamic equivalence Eugene Nida a Bible translator devised the theory of dynamic equivalence in the early 1960s. Since then he and his theor...

street English or biblical English?

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The main mantra of modern Bible production has been the "need to communicate" the Scriptures in a "modern" idiom. Clearl...
Tuesday, February 07, 2006

the cult of the modern in contemporary bible translation

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Evangelicalism is dominated by the cult of the modern. The term 'modern' is not about history or time so much as quality, everything...